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Can't change themes....

Xantos89

Posted 04 September 2005 - 01:42 AM

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I posted this before but the guy helping me kinda, um stopped, so Ill post specifically what's going on when I click properties on my desktop....

At "Themes", it's at Windows XP, it's got the backround I selected but in the space where its usually like what the windows will look like, it's got this black box. If I select another theme, say Windows classic, an "Error Loading Theme" box comes up saying,

"The theme could not load. Unspecified error

File:C:WINDOWS\resources\Themes\Windows Classic.theme

Desktop- is fine.

Screen- saver is fine.

In appearence- all there is in the box where it used to show what the windows will look like, it says "Theme Preview".

Windows and buttons:
Windows Classic style-can't change this when I go to tab this is the only option

Xantos89

Posted 04 September 2005 - 06:35 PM

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sorry for late reply, no I have no tweaking software at all. This sort of happened a couple months ago when I came home from a vacation I found my computer was bombarded by viruses. I came to this website for the first time and somone helped me clear everything up. I noticed then that I could not change these settings and figured one of the viruse had deleted something to make it do this. I just realized that I could go on this website again and ask for help with it.

Xantos89

Posted 06 September 2005 - 01:33 AM

So I went to the file and found all the files you said there should be. I decided to try fooling around.

My old theme by the way was windows classic, at least it said it was. The windoes and borders were classic theme. I double clicked Luna theme and suddenly my windows and toolbar and such went back to the old blue Windows XP theme. I went to properties and I can even change the font and color of the borders, (Olive Green, Silver...) so I tried clicking WIndows classic theme, and got the old "The theme could not load. Unspecified error" thign again. I went to the file in the themes box that said Windows classic theme file and the error message came up again.

So I tried doudl clicking the Luna file and clicked the luna settings file. The screen showed the windows classic theme and I pressed ok.

All that did was make my window border words, very small, even the x button on the top right. But otherwise that it was still the XP theme....

wannabe1

Posted 07 September 2005 - 12:44 PM

Make sure that the Themes services aren't disabled in Windows Services. Click Start then Run and type services.msc and click "Ok" If it's disabled, change it to "Automatic".

Go HERE and download Resources.zip. When you extract the files, make sure the destination path for the extraction is c:\Windows (providing your Windows installation is on the C drive...if it isn't, change to the appropriate drive letter). You want to replace the current files with the new ones so choose "Yes" if prompted to replace them.

Guest_Tony_*

Posted 07 September 2005 - 11:32 PM

Xantos89

Posted 08 September 2005 - 01:54 AM

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....no.... still can't load the classics theme. Basically its the same problem. Some parts of the theme load when I try, like the backround, and the the font, but the windows and the toolbar stay the same... this is really weird, I figured this wasn't so uncommon but I guess it is.

Phants

Posted 20 August 2006 - 09:36 AM

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I've had this very same problem for a while. Finally being annoyed by it for a while i decided to try and fix it. I tried replaxing my theme files etc like above and nothing worked, then a friend suggested created a new user.

I created a new admin user and copied my short cuts and what not across and everythings now fine!